For the most part, female cicada killers keep their stings for cicadas. Females can sting humans if they are provoked, which they normally don’t become. As a nonaggressive insect, the only time ...

But there's one part of the insect's arrival that you may have not considered: the surfacing of the Cicada Killer Wasp. Cicada Killer Wasps, also known as Sphecius speciosus, are "solitary wasps ...

Some say that it looks similar to a yellow-jacket or hornet, but those are a very different kinds of insect. The cicada killer is a ground-dwelling wasp. Females are larger than the males.

We are starting to see the most impressive wasp found in Ohio. Eastern cicada killers (Specius speciosus) are large, solitary wasps. The cicada killer is one of the largest wasps in North America.

This year’s cicada emergence is particularly noteworthy ... “This is going to be a big food resource for anything that eats bugs; they’re big and they’re juicy,” she remarked, noting ...